• 589+ people have been reported killed in this quake so far
• 87,000 people were killed in a quake in a nearby province in 2008 source

• 6.9 the magnitude
  of the quake, as reported by the USGS
• 400+ people have been
  killed in the wake of the major quake
• 10k+ people reported injured
  in China’s Qinghai province source

• Know what would’ve been really impressive? If Mike Perber had managed his record-breaking elbow-to-hand quarters attempt while the quake was happening. Then we’ be really impressed. Gawker thinks it’s a hoax, but we think it’s just a bizarre attention grab. (He’s done this before.) source

• Had a powerful meditation just now – caused an earthquake in Southern California. Was meditating on Shiva mantra & earth began to shake. Sorry about that.
• Meditation guru Deepak Chopra • Regarding the California quake he didn’t cause. If he was making a joke about the quake, it didn’t go over super well, because it quickly became the object of derision. If he was being honest, man, he needs to meditate less. We can shake the earth too with our loud, angry typing, Deepak. You should be scared of us. source

• Could the framing of this clip be any less postmodern? Girl with guitar is about to record song for her throngs of YouTube fans, but just happens to catch an insane earthquake instead. Glad it wasn’t worse. HuffPost has a bunch more clips like this. source

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• “Strong earthquake in the Los Angeles area”: Talk about a phrase we could go without hearing. While the quake was powerful, it definitely wasn’t an end-of-the-world situation by any stretch. Mediaite has the initial reports from CNN, which they totally got the jump on over MSNBC and Fox News, including the use of Twitter. source

• $9.9 billion to help the quake-rocked nation recover source

• 90% of the country went dark last night during a quake fundraiser
• 2,000 number of miles the massive power outage stretched source